Word: secularity
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...Secular scholarship places Christ's real birth at about 3 or 4 B.C. The Christian church has never been very quick to acknowledge poor scholarship--it took the church nearly four centuries to get the heliocentric model of the universe right. Nonetheless, four years ago the church could have made up for some lost ground in the past if it had recognized the 2,000th birthday of Christ in 1997 or 1998 (adjusting for calendar irregularities). We are fortunate that no terrorists managed to set any bombs off this millennium, but how much time, money and effort could have been...